Who dat?

Musicians are like everyone else, prone to fall into habits and comfortable places. If you get good (and successful) at doing a particular sound, it's unlikely that you'll try something else unless you're desperate or just a little bit crazy.

You'll find segments from two songs (below) from a recent CD by a long time American musician who seems to defy the trend. He's not Zappa (a voice we're all poorer for because of his early demise), but he's got some of the same chameleon like tendencies without Yankovic's need to mock (and add an accordion).

The last bits of the second snippet make it a whole lot easier to identify, but hey, I didn't want to make it impossible.

1. Sample #1
2. Sample #2